Cayard v. Robertson

The complainants, in part as owners and in part as lienors, are interested in a judgment for $5000, rendered against Robertson & Hobbs for a fatal injury received by an employee while in their service, as a result of their actionable negligence. This judgment has not been paid, and, on account of the insolvency of the judgment debtors, cannot be collected out of them. At the time of the injury Robertson & Hobbs were carrying an employer’s indemnity policy, issued to them by the New Amsterdam Casualty Company, which covered the injury that constituted the original cause of action, to the…